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Get inside the mind of Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Stephanie Beatriz as she gives you an exclusive look into the show, her (hilarious) thoughts on pop culture, her (serious) appreciation for Dolly Parton and basically anything else that enters her radar.
Clothes! They're so much easier when other people pick them out for you! That's why I'm going to share some things I've picked up during the first season of B99 from the costumers and wardrobe crew that have helped me/inspired me/made me figure out how to make my butt look better in pants.
1. Orthopedics for your shoes are awesome
Orthopedics for your shoes are awesome
Wait. Hear me out. I know you think I'm a grandma right now and you were expecting this to be all fashion-y but your feet are important, ok? Heels (including heeled boots) don't have a lot of support or cushioning built in for your foot. A super easy solution is to add an insert – especially for the ball of your foot, because that's where all the weight is going when you wear any type of heel. Wardrobe put some in my boots and GAME CHANGER. I didn't feel as tired at the end of long shoot days, and my ankles and calves didn't feel strained the way they sometimes do if I've been in heels for more than a few hours. Seriously, your feet will thank you. Also, speaking of shoes...
2. Heeled boots are the new black
Heeled boots are the new black
More comfortable than a traditional heel but still retaining that super badass sexy skyscraper feeling we all like, the heeled boot is everything that is right with the world. My fav outfit is a black skinny jean with a heeled black boot – visually your legs look a mile long because of the all-black and the heel. BAM! Also just try really confidently strutting in a pair of high heels. Yeeeeaah, doing a little baby giraffe action, aren't you? Not so with the heeled boot – you will feel strong and steady enough to kick ALL the ass and take ALL the names.
3. Leather motorcycle jackets are god's gift to us all
Leather motorcycle jackets are god's gift to us all
Except poor vegans. Sad face emoji... BUT NOT SO FAST! Half the jackets I wear on the show are vegan! A "leather jacket" doesn't need to be real leather, but it does need to be added to your closet. You can wear one with EVERYTHING. Sundress feeling too cutesy? Add a leather jacket. Pencil skirt feeling too prim? Guuurl you better throw on that leather jacket. There's a reason it's a classic guys. It goes with more than half the stuff you already own and will go with more than half the stuff you buy in the future. Oh yeah, and did I mention the real ones last forever? I have a vintage one i bought at Goodwill, and when I was checking the pockets I found a tag that said it was made in 1956! I wore it yesterday over a white tee and cutoffs. That's what I'm talking about – 58 years of sexy leather fashion AND COUNTING.
4. Simple jewelry looks good with everything
Simple jewelry looks good with everything
On Brooklyn Nine-Nine, my character has worn the exact same necklace and wristwatch on EVERY EPISODE – it's the exact same delicate gold necklace and heavy silver men's watch for every outfit, and they always look good! When our costume designer Kirsten and I met at my first fitting, I happened to be wearing my St. Christopher medallion on a delicate gold chain. Kirsten loved it. She ran out and got me one for the show and then added the watch to balance the femininity of the necklace. Those two pieces are super easy, super simple, and go with literally everything I wear on the show.
5. No More Unibooty
No More Unibooty
I know I've talked about it before on the blog, but JEANS ARE MY FAVORITE. But i hate hate hate how my skinny jeans always get this weird saggy butt thing after I've been wearing and sitting in them for an hour. You know what I'm talking about – when from the back you've got a unibooty, and your TWO cheeks have mysteriously morphed into ONE. Whatever that's about, I am: Not. Ok. With. It. And even the high quality jeans do it to some extent. But you know what helps with that? A belt. Yup, a stupidly simple solution that I needed a professional costumer to tell me about.
Read more of Stephanie's thoughts by reading her other On My Radar entries here.


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Day 6
Top: Mango
Cardi: Too old to remember!
Finally, an outfit fit for wearing to work. Really like this look and I do love this skirt, but I don't wear it very often because it rides up when I walk and its creased like crazy after a couple of hours! Perhaps a slip underneath would help.
Day 7
Vest: Too old to remember
Cardi: Primark
Boots: Timberland
Yeay - it's cool enough to start wearing boots again - I LIVE in boots during autumn, winter and a lot of spring! I wore this out to a night at the comedy club...and hoped the comedian wouldn't pick up on the fact I was wearing a mans shirt turned into a skirt!!! Was a great night, and luckily I wasn't picked on - phew! These photos were taken when I came home, so the skirt is very creased!
Day 8+9 - er fails! Didn't manage to wear anything handmade. Ah well!
Dress: Bought at car boot sale for £1!
Belt: Tesco for £1
Shoes: New Look
Bag: Made by me
I went to a dinner party at my friends house on Friday night. Unfortunately I haven't really made anything suitable so I had to resort to my faithful clutch bag. A great night, and all my friends said they wanted to put in an order for their own clutch!
Day 11 - fail!
Day 12
Cardi: ??
Boots: Timberland
Bag: Pinko
Worn for a day out shopping with mum. I really love this outfit and loved the fact I was wearing a dress made by myself. It makes you take a different view when shopping...I have almost lost my interest in shopping for clothes these days as I just think "I should try and make my own version instead"! Now if only I had the time to sew.....
I had my first day at my Dressmaking and Tailoring class last night! Unfortunately, they had a little bit of a mix up when advertising the class and didn't fully explain the difference between beginners and intermediate so apparently this class will be a mix of the two. So last night all we did was get familiar with a few of the sewing machines in the room and learn to wind a bobbin, thread the machine up, sew in a straight line, around a corner and sew to pieces of fabric together! Hmm.....a little basic! But it will get better. Plus it was just great to be in a room full of other people interested in sewing! They all seem so lovely so I'm really looking forward to this class progressing and getting to know everyone a bit better. When I start to learn something a bit more challenging I'll do a better post about the class!

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With its newly integrated RSS Reader, the Digg app for iOS offers a unique mix of features that set it apart from other news reader apps. It blends Digg's well-known brand of social news with a standard RSS reader similar to Google Reader. Unfortunately, though, at this point it seems like neither aspect of this hybrid news app is very impressive.
The classic Digg experience
The Digg iOS app sports a similar look and feel to the Digg.com Web site, with a clean interface that uses plenty of white space to keep things simple. As the companion app to the site, the Digg app similarly lacks key features like comments and categories. Good thing is, the app does its best to make up for these omissions with smooth performance that reliably syncs to your activity on the Web site.
A simple swipe inward from the left edge of the screen opens the main navigation menu where you'll find, at the very top, a button for Digg Top Stories. This is where you'll find the social news feed that the company has long been known for. The bad thing is, there are no buttons for Popular or Upcoming stories, which is a significant letdown considering how important these features are to the full Digg social news experience on the Web site. Below the Top Stories button, you'll also see links to your Diggs and Saved folders.
To make Digg more readable on your device, Top Stories are laid out with images that span the width of the screen and large sans-serif headlines above. Since there are no other controls on this main screen, you'll have to give an article a left-swipe if you want to Digg, save, or share it. Conveniently, Digg also lets you save items to Instapaper or Pocket, if you choose to log into those services. Tapping an article shoots you over to Digg's internal browser, where you get a bigger screen to read the full text and the same controls for sharing, saving, and so on.
Because the app is missing key features like Popular and Upcoming stories, I'm wondering if the social news aspect might be taking a backseat to the newly integrated RSS reader features. Either way, there's no question that Digg's social news browser needs a lot of work.
Digg Reader
With users scrambling to find an alternative to Google Reader, Digg has graciously stepped up to the plate with its own set of mobile features (and corresponding Web site) for subscribing to RSS feeds.
Digg's reader features are built right into the flagship Digg iOS app, which means your RSS subscriptions and social news are accessible all in one place. This makes for a unique news reading experience that other reader apps -- specifically those dedicated only to RSS subscriptions -- can't mimic. As a whole, this sort of hybrid news reader has big potential, but as you'll see in my points below, Digg needs to add some polish to its idea if it doesn't want users to turn away.
One thing that's great about Digg's reader is how easily it lets you import your Google Reader subscriptions. From the app, all you have to do is log in with your Google credentials and wait a few seconds for it to populate with all of your subscriptions and folders. There's no need to use Google Takeout, and no need to upload any OPML files. The app also lets you add subscriptions straight away by typing a URL into the Add screen, or if you don't have a specific URL in mind, you can browse Digg's curated list of sites (organized by category) to see if anything interests you. From the list, you can add individual sites a la carte or entire categories at once, which is convenient. After importing, you should see all of your feeds lined up in the sliding menu on the left.


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New rules for the Actias-GalleryDear members,
Now that the "influencers" are increasingly haunting us in the gallery, we are forced to curb the uploading of the pictures.
We are generally happy about every informative and well-made photo that finds its way into the ACTIAS gallery in order to make us happy and to share in the work of our colleagues. Images are an adequate means of exchanging information and helping each other with information.
These are the basic ideas of the ACTIAS gallery.
Now in the "change of time" there are unfortunately more and more people who mainly have their own interests in mind and want to profile themselves excessively. And sometimes, sometimes unintentionally, in our gallery and then to the detriment of others.
We would like to counteract this with the following guidelines, which apply and are now implemented for the ACTIAS gallery.
We limit the amount of images that can be uploaded per member as follows:
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If the same animals are already depicted, the pictures should really show different perspectives / views and thus different information. In addition, we expect the minimum information for each picture to be the country from which the animal shown originates and the date of the photo, should it not result from the EXIF files, in order to increase the information content of the photos.
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The different perspectives per photo in a certain insect stage and the resulting wealth of information per image are interesting for our species pages, which we are gradually building up.
In this context, we would like to point out that corresponding further information (on the place of discovery, breeding notes, explanatory texts etc.) on the depicted animal will decide whether or not to delete it.
If these specifications do not work, we have to make further adjustments, but that will become clear during operation.
Here again in short form:
ACTIAS is an insect forum: all non-topic images are not welcome in the gallery
A maximum of 2-3 pictures of "Species x" in "Stadium x" per week
The pictures should show different perspectives and therefore different information
As a minimum indication of origin, the name of the country from which the animal shown originates and the date of admission
Images on human body parts such as arms, legs, face etc. are not allowed
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© Sep 2011 Volume 9 Issue 3, ECIC 2011, Editor: Geoff Turner and Clemente Minonne, pp181 - 295
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During his keynote address at 3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital held at University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 18‑19 April 2011, John Girard posed the question, Are You Ready for the Future? This rather rhetorical question was designed to create a conversation about what we should expect in the future in terms of social technology, leadership and a culture of collaboration. Throughout the conference, an excellent dialogue ensued about what the future might hold. The central focus of this discourse surrounded how collaboration could or should change in the future. The genesis of the keynote was the research completed by John Girard, Cindy Gordon, JoAnn Girard for their recent book Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies. This article is adapted from the book and focuses on why business leaders should consider focussing on collaboration.
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In the usual Tokyo Flash style, if you love this watch that much, they'll make it. Called The Right Angle, it actually has a mini/micro USB port for connecting a USB cable, and transferring data to and from.
Reading the time may look much harder than usual on this one, but Tokyo Flash has been inventive with this one—the cryptic face actually fools friends into trying to crack the code, only for you to flick your wrist and reveal the time that way.
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Mixed Media DVD
Viewer Comments
Love the mixed media techniques! My daughter does big projects with mixed media and I have been trying some of her ideas. These are fab! Thank you!
It was so nice seeing Sara's projects again. Missed her work. I would never have thought to use baby wipes. Thanks every one for a wonderful webisode.
Sara's back!!! Loved the webisode and can't wait for the weekend to play. You are all so amazing, talented, fun, and inspirational. Thanks for all you do for your customers.
I am really impressed by the techniques you have shown. Mixed media items sometimes get a little scary and I love that Sara focuses on one technique per project. This is definitely a must have item. I'm so glad to see some of Sara's projects again. I loved watching Sara and Paulette when they first started airing the webisodes.
This is an awesome DVD. Love all of the ideas and surfaces. WOW
Was there a demo on the card that is mixed media on acetate with the large feather stamp? I skipped from the view of the front to Paulette showing the inside and nothing else. Keep up the great work, girls. I love all of the webisodes and products.
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There wasn't a step by step for this card. We had so much to show you and not enough time for all the goodies we had to share!
OH MY GOODNESS! Absolutely phenomenal webasode. The countless textures, techniques and step by step instructions, truly amazing. This DVD is a must have for every artist out there. Or a person like me who just likes to get her hands dirty. One question, where do I find the card stock mentioned in the webasode in Paper Wishes? Love ya Ladies!
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The product number is 4003446 for white cardstock on the PaperWishes.com website-
I think I am one of the first with this, and I LOVE it! This is "one of my favorite things". This is WOW,WOW,WOW!
Thanks, everyone, for the kind comments! I had a blast making the DVD (now that I've had my nap!) and really hope you enjoy it.
Yeah, Sara is back! Haven't watched it yet, but seeing the threads above, couldn't resist. Welcome back, Sara!
Thanks for another great and informative webisode! I love the techniques that Sara has incorporated into her DVD and for your demonstrations! You've got me excited to try new methods of creativity! I hope to get the DVD soon and see all the other techniques that Sara has to offer!
Another WOW! I'm not much of a movie watcher, but you girls can make another movie for me anytime. This has got to be the longest webisode ever, but I loved it. So many techniques to try. Thanks a bunch!!
I was watching webisodes when Sara Naumann was doing them, and am still watching them, and enjoying them!! This is fun to see all of these ideas that Sara has come up with in her DVD. Thank you for sharing them, and explaining them to your viewers. This is why I love Paper Wishes so much!! You are very thoughtful!!
WOW! What a fabulous video. Sara has really wowed us this time. Thanks for sharing so much of her DVD. I think it is a "must have".
Wow! What a surprise to see Sara's work again. Loved and bought a lot of her products. A tribute to your company, Paulette, that your great designers never really leave... I didn't hear you say, but are the baby wipes ones with alcohol in them? Also, surprised about the new silky papers (a must buy for me) but want to know if they could be used on an inkjet printer? Got to buy DVD and new paper. Thanks again for great ideas!
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The Silky paper should be fine in an inkjet printer and Gail says the baby wipes can be used with or without alcohol.
It's official - I *love* you gals! :-)
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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has been publishing an independent Human Development Report (HDR) for almost twenty years. Its associated Human Development Index (HDI) is well-respected, broad (182 countries), and widely read (they translate it into a dozen languages). In contrast, our CSRHUB ratings system has just recently launched and is not nearly as well known. While we cover more companies (more than 5,500) and countries (66) than any other source of corporate social responsibility information, we can't claim the same level of authority or readership as the HDI.
Further, our ratings describe company behavior—the HDI talks about countries. Should there be a connection between these two data sets? One could hypothesize either that countries with a good HDI score produce socially positive companies or that socially positive companies help foster a business climate in their countries that addresses human development. Either way, we could see a correlation between our average Community rating (which contains information about community development, philanthropy, human rights, supply chain issues, and product quality) and the HDI.
We only have enough data to match up 52 of the 66 countries we cover, with the HDI information. Still, a 50+ point data set should be enough to reveal if there is a meaningful relationship between two sets of data. When we graph our 0 to 100 country score against the HDI's 0.0 to 1.0 range, we see only a 3% correlation. This suggests they may be no relationship between company behavior and country norms.
Notice the cluster of data points to the right and the long tail of points that stretches to the left? Most of the points on the right (with good HDI values) are for developed economies. The tail to the left includes smaller, less developed countries. Many of the less-developed countries have only a few major publicly-traded companies. The social standards set within these major companies may not be representative of the general level of social performance of companies in those countries.
If we remove countries where we have a small number (fewer than 20) of companies and exclude the still-developing economies of India and South Africa, we find a much stronger (27%) relationship between our community rating and the HDI.
The connection between these data sets is still not perfect. For instance, our top three countries on the Community score within this set are France, the Netherlands, and the UK. The top HDI scores for this set of countries are for Australia, Norway, and Canada. We need to have more data points over a longer baseline (our site has only been up for about six months) before we can claim to have proven a relationship. Still, it is encouraging to see signs of a connection between companies and their countries.
What about that tail of developing and smaller companies? The Community scores in our system were generally better than the formula from the developed-company correlation would predict. This suggests that the top companies in these countries have standards for their social performance that exceed what we might otherwise expect. Perhaps this is due to these companies being exposed to pressure from overseas customers and investors, to perform better on human issues? Many of these companies are listed on foreign stock exchanges and some have already started producing CSR reports. (50% of the companies we cover in South Africa have done CSR reports, but only 10% of those in India.)
If companies follow the standards of their country—and improve as their countries improve—we should see the gap between the HDI score and our score close up, over time. If countries follow the example set by their leading companies, we might see company scores continue to improve and the HDI/CSRHUB Community score gap stay the same. We will try to revisit this analysis a year from now, and see how things have changed.


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If you want to try eating snake in Vietnam, there's one place to head – Le Mat snake village near Hanoi. The restaurants here specialise in the art of serving snake in an elaborate theatrical show. Feeling brave enough? Here's what to expect.
When the man bringing your meal to the table is missing most of his fingers and the main ingredient is not only still alive but also long and writhing and – hang on, is that a cobra? Well, that's when you know this is no ordinary dining experience. Eating at one of Hanoi's snake restaurants is as much a theatrical performance as a meal out.
The decor is way over the top. From a grungy side-street you enter a world of exuberant woodwork with mother-of-pearl inlay glowing in the lantern light. Bonsai plants are scattered artfully while off to the side glass jars containing snake wine hint at what's to come.
When everyone's settled, the snake handler – he with very few fingers – presents the menu. He kicks off with cobra, the most expensive item on the menu (and a choice photo-op), then runs through the other options, all very much alive and hissing. Traditionally, your chosen snake is killed in front of you, though it will be dispatched off-stage if you ask. The guest of honour (lucky you?) then gets to eat the still-beating heart.
The Vietnamese say it contains a stimulant and that the meat is an aphrodisiac. The jury's out on both counts, however, because of the copious amounts of alcohol everyone consumes. By way of an aperitif you get two small glasses of rice wine, one blood red, the other an almost fluorescent, bile-ish green… which is in fact exactly what they are.
Things get decidedly more palatable as the meal starts to arrive. In a matter of minutes your snake has been transformed into all manner of tasty dishes: snake soup, spring rolls, dumplings, fillets, even crispy-fried snake skin. Absolutely nothing is wasted. It's washed down with more rice wine, or beer if you'd rather, and to round things off, some fresh fruit and green tea – with no snake sorbet forthcoming.
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Dr. Grumpy: "Did you?"
Mr. Hedhurtz: "No, I went to the casino instead."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
I guess that's a fairly exciting gamble.
I BET if he won the migraine got better?
I bet it was cheaper to go to the casino!
So, instead of curling up under a blanket and hiding from all lights and sounds, he actually goes a loud, noisy area with lots of blinking bright lights.
Yep, makes perfect sense to me!
Did it work?
How do you manage to hold yourself back from screaming at people?
Helen- because Annie will kill me if I do.
But they are BEGGING you to strangle them!!!! It's justifiable homicide!
Casino? Sure bet way to GET a migraine if you ask me!--flashing lights, noise, smoke...
I think Annie should let you yell at them just a little bit. Nah, I know you just have to hold it in and get another Diet Coke--though I'm telling you, sometimes margaritas work better...
There is something to be said about the theory of distraction - she would've been so into her game that the migraine went away... *shrugs*
Ummm.......I believe in the theory of distraction but it has to be in an environment that does NOT exacerbate a migraine. I have never been to a casino and one of the reasons is it looks like a sensory night mare to me.
I think eye rolling would be acceptable if screaming is not.
Dear Dr. Grumpy, I have to congratulate you on the quality of your followers and respondents...I get as big a kick out of reading the comments as I do your blog.
eye rolling and a good "whatever" while putting up the hand.
A casino for a migraine. Maybe she needed money to pay for the treximet ROFLMAO
"Good Idea!" (thanks from your friendly ER doctor!)
Little Calf Creamery. Delicious homemade ice cream and food in Thousand Oaks!


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Nelson Mandela Square became Nelson Mandela Square in March of 2004 when a 3 meter tall statu of Nelson Mandela was installed to honor the former leader and father of the nation, before that it was known as Sandton Square. Wikipedia
The square is home to several restaurants including; the new Hard Rock Cafe, The Butcher Shop and Grill (steak house), Pappas (Greek), wangthai (Thai), Montigo Bay (seafood), a couple of Italian places, and a few others making it a popular destination for both locals and visitors.
This sphere was taken as an HDR with 3 bracket shots using +/- 1 EV on the exposure. I would like to thank Liberty property management for giving me permission to photograph the square using my tripod.


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I bought one for my wife and I. They are the LIMITED version, not the cheaper screen printed cheaper model.
They sent our first order, then 3 weeks later sent me this jersey. I never opened it and my initial response was for them to remove the charge for it and I return it, and they refused to do it, saying I ordered it (Nike.com).
So, I'm selling it here. The price is $149, plus the tax is about $161. You pay for the shipping to where ever you live from Texas where I am.
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TGIF: Food related "Periodic videos"Friday, August 20th, 2010
I believe most chemists are familiar with the "periodic videos" from the University of Nottingham, covering all the known chemical elements. The series features professor Martyn Poliakoff who's grey hair is really worthy of a professor! They have now covered the complete periodic table of elements, and have even started to update some of their previously posted videos. There are also thematic videos as well as videos covering specific molecules appearing now. As a chemist I think the videos are great fun to watch since they show a number of exotic experiments I've never seen before combined with plenty of nice-to-know facts. I certainly recommend all these videos (for an overview, check out their website), but the reason I chose to blog about this is that I was delighted to find a number of more or less food related videos! These are definitely not going to make you a better cook. But some of them are quite amusing to watch, and you may even learn some chemistry as you go. But most of the food related videos are really just for fun 🙂
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When I bought the ZaReason Strata Laptop, I asked them to pre-load Mageia 4 to it. However, I knew that I was going to add more distros to the hard drive as soon as I can, to make it feel like the pentaboot HP Pavilion that died on me.
To begin, I wiped the original install and re-installed Mageia. Then, I tried to put PCLinuxOS into the hard drive, but the distro had problems with the display. As I could not achieve a decent display, I decided to do some research and try with PCLinuxOS later.
I dual-booted the laptop with OpenMandriva Lx. No problem there whatsoever. In fact, OpenMandriva's GRUB2 controls the booting.
Then I added PicarOS, the awesome distro for children. Unfortunately, this distro refused to use the Compiz effects properly, losing some of its impressive visuals. Still, it became my third distro.
After reading some threads in the PCLinuxOS forums, I learned how to enable the laptop to use a larger screen resolution than 800x600. I still cannot get OpenGL to work properly but, with the resolution fix, PCLinuxOS claimed a partition of the HD as the fourth distro.
Today, thanks to Megatotoro, who posted here about PisiLinux going RC2, I installed the new comer distro, too. The process was quick and simple.
Pisi's GRUB substituted OpenMandriva's, but I reverted the situation. Then, I pimped up Pisi's desktop and, in so doing, made a stupid mistake: I added 20 virtual spaces in one row! If you want to see an ugly bottom panel, do that.
Now the Strata laptop has all the distros I was using in the HP Pavilion.
And I am still waiting for the release of Elive...
A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 4, Mageia 7, PCLinuxOS, MX 19, PicarOS, Elive 3, and AntiX 13.
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France seeks Mali exit, handover to UN peacekeepers
NEARLY A MONTH after launching an offensive in Mali to drive out Islamist extremists, France mulled the withdrawal of its troops today after asking the UN to prepare a peacekeeping force to take the baton.
France's 28-day-old intervention has largely driven the Al-Qaeda-linked rebels, who controlled northern Mali for 10 months and had threatened to advance on the capital, to the remote mountains of the far northeast, along the Algerian border.
But French-led forces continue to come under attack in reclaimed territory, and with fears of a prolonged insurgency, Paris is keen to hand over the military burden.
The French defence ministry said today that the intervention in its former colony has already cost France 70 million euros ($95 million), with the figure rising by 2.7 million euros per day.
Clashes with rebels
French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the rebels had hit back at troops with rocket fire on Tuesday in Gao, the largest city in the north, and that patrols in reclaimed towns had encountered "residual jihadist groups who are still fighting".
Le Drian said Tuesday the French-led operation had so far killed "several hundred" Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
"This is a real war with significant losses but I'm not going to get into an accounting exercise," he said when asked about the toll.
France's sole fatality so far has been a helicopter pilot killed at the start of the operation. Mali said 11 of its troops were killed and 60 wounded in early fighting but has not since released a new death toll.
A spokesman for one of the rebel groups, the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), told AFP: "The combat isn't over. The attacks are going to continue."
In Gao, French-led forces have beefed up security to prevent rebels infiltrating the city, according to a Malian army source. An AFP journalist reported large patrols by French, Malian and Nigerien troops.
French helicopters have been patrolling the road between Gao and Douentza, 400 kilometres (250 miles) to the southwest along the road that leads to the capital, Bamako.
The area is littered with land mines and improvised explosive devices, according to security sources.
Two Malian soldiers were killed last week when their vehicle drove over a mine outside Douentza.
Peacekeeping force
After announcing plans to start withdrawing its 4,000 troops from Mali in March, France called yesterday for a United Nations peacekeeping force to take over.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a peacekeeping force could be in place by April, incorporating troops being deployed under the banner of a West African intervention force, AFISMA, into a UN mission.
"This gives the advantage of being under the umbrella of the United Nations, under its financing," he said.
'New national pact'
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is slowly deploying some 6,000 troops in Mali, joined by another 2,000 from Chad.
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France's ambassador to the UN, Gerard Araud, said it would take "several weeks" to make an assessment on deploying peacekeepers but that the Security Council had "no objections" to the plan.
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous acknowledged that Mali's interim government had raised objections to such a force, but said the idea was supported by the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States and key UN members.
"I think there is clearly a shared desire of the international community to do what needs to be done in Mali," Ladsous told a press conference in New York.
France now has as many troops in Mali as it had at the peak of its deployment in Afghanistan in 2010.
French fighter jets continue to pound the area around the Adrar des Ifoghas massif in the far northeast, a craggy mountain landscape honeycombed with caves where the insurgents are believed to have fled with seven French hostages.
France's UN ambassador said a peacekeeping mission would also be tasked with helping Mali, whose bow tie-shaped map circumscribes a vast sprawl of terrain and peoples, "reach a new national pact".
Mali's descent into chaos began with a new rebellion among the Tuareg in January, a traditionally nomadic northern people who have long felt marginalised by the southern government.
But a Western UN diplomat warned such a mission would not be easy.
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While we carved pumpkins last night my husband asked where "Jack O' Lanterns" came from and I told him about an old Irish Myth. My facts were a little murky and my husband was laughing at me ("What? Seriously? You know the story?") Of course I know the story - that's my bag, man!
Since you might be interested in a few interesting tidbits as well I'll give you my two favorites:
Find out how Jack O' Lantern managed to irritate both god and the devil.
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Regarding witches - well I can't find a singular resource so I'll have to do my own little rehash of something I heard a few years back. (NPR?)
Essentially it goes like this - what we now call witches were more like ancient healers and people trained in natural brews, concoctions, herbal remedies, etc. Before the Roman Church took over the brewing reigns Celts and other early civilizations did their fair share of brewing. Ok, long story very, very short - beer was sold at the markets and in order to stand out/be easy to find it is thought that the brewers, often women, wore tall hats that could be seen about the crowd, hence a tall, pointed witch hat. The pointed style of the hat could be attributed to the style of the day, or the type of hat typically worn by someone in that specific industry - not sure. Either way the tall, pointed hat was like an early neon sign - "Beer Here!".
Recently Em and I were discussing this whole thing while he was making a homebrew and was preparing the "wort". I remarked that perhaps this is where the idea of witches having "warts" came from. Perhaps. No idea if that is true but interesting to ponder.
Eventually and obviously witches and herbal-based healers got a bad reputation and along with it went their garb. The stigma stayed attached and the witches hat became a symbol of that stigma, more so than its original and actual use.
On to the weekend reads/links!
Halloween Confections:
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Those of us involved in genomics research spend a lot of time thinking about how scientific and technological developments might influence personal genomics. For instance, does the falling cost of sequencing mean that medically useful personal genomics will likely be based on sequence rather than genotype data? (Yes.)
At the Sanger Institute we've recently launched (along with our friends at EBI) a project to look more deeply at a question which is less often on the lips of genomics boffins: "How does genomics affect as us people, both individually and in communities?" Because of the obvious resonance with Genomes Unzipped it should come as no surprise that many of us (including myself, Daniel and Luke) have been intimately involved in this initiative.
The actual line-up of events has been diverse, and a lot of fun. We've had two excellent debates, including one between Ewan Birney and Paul Flicek (pictured) on the value, or lack thereof, of celebrity genomes (covered in more detail here). A poet, Fiona Sampson, spent some time on campus and we've commissioned a book of poetry from her. This one raised some eyebrows, but I have to say that talking to her has given me some brand new ways of thinking about my own work. We're also working on a more interactive project in the hope of making personal genomics a bit more personal. Stay tuned.


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The mission of the Cystic Fibrosis Scholarship Foundation (CFSF) is to provide an opportunity for young adults with CF to further their education at a college or vocational school. This possibility is often out of reach for families with CF children because of the high cost of medical care from the time these students were babies. We at CFSF believe in the future of these young adults, their ability to achieve personal and educational goals, and their importance in making a long-term contribution to society on all levels.
Because of continual advances in medicine, the adult CF population continues to grow, creating a greater and greater need for this program. So our goal each year is to increase the number of young adults who receive our assistance.
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Anne-Marie Walters joined Bentley in 2004 as a global marketing director. In this capacity she is responsible for the marketing and positioning of Bentley's solutions and products that address the needs of the industrial sector including oil & gas, process & discrete manufacturing, and mining industries.Ms. Walters, who is a chartered chemical engineer, has represented Bentley on the board of the Construction Industry Institute and is also heavily engaged in the activities of FIATECH. She sat on the board of the Engineering Contractors and Constructors Association between 2005 and 2010 and was the Chair in 2009. In addition, she is a founding member of the Process Industries STEP Consortium (PISTEP) committee and has served on the boards of CIMsteel and the United Kingdom's chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI). She is frequently a guest speaker at industry events sponsored by these and other organizations.
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Marie Telepneff is a senior product marketing manager with Bentley Systems, responsible for building/structural, plant/electrical, and water/wastewater demand generation campaigns and program delivery within the design modeling advancement unit. She previously worked in marketing and communications with ABB and Aspen Technology where she gained a background in plant design and engineering. Telepneff holds a master's degree in marketing management from Heriot Watt University and UC Berkeley.
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Carsten Gerke joined Bentley Systems in January 1995 as a sales account manager before being named as sales director for DACH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland). He was later named senior sales director for Bentley Plant in Europe, before becoming global director of professional services for Bentley Plant.Prior to joining Bentley, Gerke held sales, marketing, and finance positions with Kunkel CAD/CAE Systeme. He earned a degree in executive education, leading professional service firms, from Harvard University, and a master's degree in mathematics, economics, and computing from Universitat Karlsruhe (TH).
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Iquitos Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Iquitos Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Peru View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message surferrosaJoined: 10 Jul 2008Posts: 2Location: canada Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: Iquitos Hi everybody I'm new to the board and I'm interested in teaching English in Iquitos. I don't have a degree or teaching experience, but I'll have my TESOL. Are jobs easy to find here? Thanks. Back to top naturegirl321Joined: 04 May 2003Posts: 9041Location: home sweet home Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject: It' might be easy since it's touristy and everyone wants to leran English, but as far as language schools, the only one that I know about is the one at the university. But you should be able to pick up students here and there. Back to top NickImpyJoined: 28 Dec 2007Posts: 56Location: NJ/PA Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: iquitos? Do you have family there? It's so hot in the selva, but beautiful Back to top surferrosaJoined: 10 Jul 2008Posts: 2Location: canada Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:45 am Post subject: Nope, no family there. I'm just really intrigued by the city. Back to top keepwalkingJoined: 17 Feb 2005Posts: 194Location: Peru, at last Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: UK Britanica (now called UK Vivential in Trujillo so possible name change in Iquitos too....) have a school on the Malecon. They aren't renowned for paying well though. You'd probably pick up quite a few private students although many people in Iquitos work in tourism and are paid terribly - spare money for english classes isn't too high on their list of priorities. One consideration would be the visa. You wouldn't get a work visa through the uni or through UK Britanica. That would leave you on a tourist visa which is valid for 90 days. To renew it you'd have to cross the border and then re-enter Peru. This is simple from Lima or cities such as Trujillo or Cusco but Iquitos is 3 days by river boat from Colombia/Brazil. That's downstream: against the flow of the river count on a 4 day trip back to the city. There are fast boats but they are costly. This could be a major problem if you taught longer than a few months. Iquitos is an intriguing city and the people are incredibly friendly. I considered teaching there myself but it wasn't financially viable in the end. Back to top naturegirl321Joined: 04 May 2003Posts: 9041Location: home sweet home Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: keepwalking wrote: One consideration would be the visa. You wouldn't get a work visa through the uni or through UK Britanica. That would leave you on a tourist visa which is valid for 90 days. To renew it you'd have to cross the border and then re-enter Peru. . NOt anymore, now you get up to 183 days, but you'll have to ask for that. NONRENEWABLE. so you stay here for 183 days, can't renew it at migraciones, you'll have to leave the country. Back to top keepwalkingJoined: 17 Feb 2005Posts: 194Location: Peru, at last Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:14 pm Post subject: Can you leave and then return as you do on the 90 days or is it a case of leaving and not returning for a longer period of time? Do they ask for anything like evidence of funds etc before they give you the 183 days? This could be a way for our new staff to avoid having to go to Ecuador to renew their tourist visa while they wait for the work visa to come through. Good information! Thanks Back to top naturegirl321Joined: 04 May 2003Posts: 9041Location: home sweet home Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: I don't kow. I really don't think anyone knows at the moement. 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VoIP and Embedded Linux
Aplio offers an alternative to MS-Windows-based long-distance telephone calls on the Internet. Under the hood, you will find embedded Linux.
Telecommunications is a huge market that continues to grow at a frightening pace. As the market becomes more sophisticated, the need for intelligent devices grows as well. A relatively new piece of the telecommunications market is voice over ID, or VoIP. This is where speech is digitized and sent over an IP-based network.
The most common products in this market combine an MS-Windows PC and sound card with proprietary software to offer the equivalent of free long-distance telephone calls by using the Internet.
This approach has its drawbacks. You must have an MS-Windows PC turned on and available in order to place or receive phone calls. Enter Aplio or, more specifically, Aplio/Pro, a stand-alone appliance that allows you to make telephone calls over the Internet.
Like any other VoIP solution, you need a system at each end to make the call. Unlike most solutions, with Aplio you don't need computers on each end. While Aplio has had products in this market, Aplio/Pro amounts to their transition to open-source software.
Henri Tebeka, chief technology officer for Aplio, said, "Linux is the ideal operating system for our technology. Its built-in Internet connectivity, royalty-free accessibility and open-source structure will allow us to streamline our development process, and ultimately strengthen our position as the leading provider of Internet telephony appliance technology." Combining Linux with the growing improvements in VoIP technology, Aplio brings a progressive development model to bear on one of the most vital areas of the Internet's growth as a truly multimedia, mass network capable of delivering voice data as seamlessly as it does text, still graphics and video.
Aplio/Pro features a built-in processor along with a modem, flash RAM, hardware-based full-duplex voice compression and a full-duplex speakerphone.
Jerome Calvo, president and CEO of Aplio, Inc. said, "Are users going to want to talk over the phone through their computer? With a headset? The approach we have is a non-PC approach, an Internet appliance approach, a stand-alone device...The voice over IP market is much more mature than it was one or two years ago...Still, some companies have since joined the VoIP market with software-based solutions that often don't deliver the same level of quality."
Setting up Linux-based Aplio/Pro is easy. It connects to a telephone as simply as an answering machine and plugs into an Ethernet port.
Configuring the Aplio/Pro involves little more than entering Internet account information on the telephone keypad. There is a ten-digit number (the Aplio ID, located under the unit) which represents the ID or phone number of the Aplio unit. It can then send calls to other Aplio systems, as well as to those using multimedia computers with Internet telephony software such as Microsoft's NetMeeting.
To place a call, you pick up the telephone receiver (assuming the speakerphone is not being used), press the "Aplio" button on the unit's console, dial the Aplio ID of the individual being called and wait for the phone to ring on the other end of the line. Calling to or from an Aplio unit with an Internet telephony-enabled PC is just as easy.
To use Aplio behind a firewall or NAT (Network Address Translation) box, all that's necessary is to open up the appropriate ports much like you would do with ICQ or other real-time transfer protocols.
How does Linux fit into Aplio's picture? Fresh on the heels of its Internet telephony appliance success, Aplio embarked upon a project to develop a broadband version for the enterprise. Whereas the Aplio/Phone works over average PSTN (public switched telephone network) lines and runs the proprietary PSOS real-time operating system developed by Integrated Systems, Inc. (now a part of Wind River Systems, Inc.), Aplio/Pro is a Linux-based, stand-alone, Internet telephony appliance that routes to the Internet. Aplio/Pro, like the Aplio/Phone, has won its share of commendations, namely Product of the Year awards from both Internet Telephony and Communications Solutions magazines earlier this year. Internet Telephony said, "in our opinion, the best VoIP appliance is Aplio/Pro..." And while acknowledging the value of some competing products from Innomedia, InterStar and Komodo, the review concluded that "the Aplio/Pro is the best choice for ease of setup, economy of scale and overall usability."
Aplio/Pro's operating system is Aplio's embedded port of the Linux kernel. The port is adapted from ucLinux/ARM (which is itself a port of uClinux, a Linux version for micro-controllers without a memory management unit or mmu). Aplio's TRIO chip was the first port of ucLinux/ARM. The ucLinux kernel was built by taking the standard 2.0.38 kernel and applying the ARM patches and the ucLinux patches. After some "manual editing", ucLinux for ARM7TDMI was ready to roll.
Said Vadim Lebedev, chief software engineer for Aplio and the one who led the porting of ucLinux to ARM7TDMI, "the porting of the kernel itself was not especially difficult, the biggest problem was adapting the GCC/ARM compiler to generate position-independent code for user-mode application." Lebedev first got involved with Linux during the development of the Aplio/Pro VoIP appliance and noted that the decision to use ucLinux for the Aplio/Pro (and for future TRIO chip-based products) was due to three primary reasons. For one, the availability of the source code and access to open-source software tools made modifications and enhancements easier and more efficient. Second, the ability to "comfortably" develop and test the code on Linux workstations, and then embed the code on the device by recompiling, was deemed a major advantage. And third, the high level of support Lebedev and his development team could get from the broader community of Linux developers meant that the project would not be isolated from further innovations in both Linux and embedded systems. Added Lebedev, "[now] we can say it is really much easier to develop Linux-based embedded software than, let's say, PSOS-based software...I do believe that Linux has a pretty bright future in the embedded world—even if [Linux] was not initially meant to be used in this way."
The newly developed Aplio/TRIO chip provides the connection to the Internet (by way of an internal Ethernet port) while at the same time providing real-time voice compression and echo cancellation. The Aplio/TRIO is based around an ARM7TDMI micro-controller core running at 20MHz and a pair of DSP co-processors running at 40MHz. In a general, stand-alone environment such as the Aplio/Phone, one of the DSP co-processors manages voice processing, including voice compression and echo cancellation, while the other co-processor handles the telephony functions such as dialing, caller ID detection, etc.
According to statistics from aplio.com, the market for VoIP/Internet telephony is expected to explode. One research company, Probe Research Inc., suggests that the total traffic for Internet telephony will reach or exceed 250 billion conversation minutes by 2005. Aplio recorded its five millionth minute in June 1999.
Calvo notes that 70% of those who use the Aplio/Phone and Aplio/Pro are what he calls members of "ethnic communities" or those "global citizens" who work in one country yet often have family or other strong ties to another country. These core Aplio/Phone users would otherwise face heavy long-distance charges without a solution such as VoIP. Similarly, Calvo estimates that the remaining 30% of Aplio's customer base consists of internationally oriented businesses, who are also looking to avoid long-distance tolls while conducting business around the world.
Asked to characterize the Aplio premium on VoIP Internet appliances, Calvo offered the expected: (1) Aplio/Phone and Aplio/Pro are non-PC products; (2) both appliances have "extremely good" voice quality; and (3) both Aplio/Phone and Aplio/Pro feature easy-to-manage user interfaces. "Our goal is to have many companies build[ing] many different appliances. In that sense, betting on an open-source operating system like Linux is a good thing, because we can very quickly prototype, develop and test our products and get them to market."